Provisioning services, such as the production of food, feed, and fiber, have always been the
main focus of agriculture. Since the 1950s, intensive cropping systems based on the …

A range of policy initiatives have been promoted in recent years to address the decline of
bee populations in Europe and North America. Among these has been the establishment of …

Global food security requires increased crop productivity to meet escalating demand 1–3.
Current food production systems are heavily dependent on synthetic inputs that threaten the …

Understanding variation in resource specialization is important for progress on issues that
include coevolution, community assembly, ecosystem processes, and the latitudinal gradient …

Providing key resources to animals may enhance both their biodiversity and the ecosystem
services they provide. We examined the performance of annual flower strips targeted at the …

Burgeoning consumer interest in organically produced foods has made organic farming one
of the fastest growing segments of agriculture. This growth has not been supported …

Despite huge gains in productivity, environmental impacts of industrial agriculture based on
a few high-yielding crop cultivars and the massive use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides …

Floral resources (nectar and pollen) provide food for insect pollinators but have declined in
the countryside due to land use change. Given widespread pollinator loss, it is important that …

Conservation biological control aims to enhance populations of natural enemies of insect
pests in crop habitats, typically by intentional provision of flowering plants as food resources …

Biological pest control in greenhouse crops is usually based on periodical releases of mass-
produced natural enemies, and this method has been successfully applied for decades …